Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-07-11
TWENTY.SEvEN DROWNED.
A Frightful Disaster 60 n Pleasurs
Party in Jamaica Bay.

pleasure party on Barren lSland In Jamaica Bay,
l. l., last evening. The sloop Mystery was cap
sized and twenty-seven persons are reported as
having been drowned. The Mystery started from
the excursion grounds at Ruffie Bar with thirty
seven persons aboard chiefly women and children,
the men OF the party having gone in other boats
The tide was tearing out more rapid than mill
race, and land breeze that was almost a gale
gave white curl TO the waves The sloop had
started to come about but the bigness OF her load
caused delay. Then Squall struck her. over
she went, and men, women and children we re
thrown into the water The tugboat C. K. Dean
was not far from the Mystery when she capsized.
and Capt. Rohde directed her head toward the un.
fortunate eXcurSonistS.
The Mystery was In the channel when the suuall
struck her, and the tug had TO round Barren Is
land TO reach her. yacht that started out with
the Mystery from the excursion grounds at Rufiie
Bar, and was near her when she upset, made nc
effort 10 go TO her rescue. Her crew, seemingly
paralyzed with terror, had let down Der sail aud
thrown out an anchor. When the Dean arrived q
who had rowed out from Barren Island, and
picked up five women and two men, was struggling
against the strong tide. The Dean took his load
on board, and then drew near the Mystery, which
was nearly submerged. Two little girls uncon-
then the body OF a woman was taken from the
water. young man In a white flannel shirt
jumped overheard from the Dean and diyed sev.
eral times under the sloop In an effort 10 secure
bodies.
When the Dean approached the Canarsie wharf,
bringing the bodies that had been recovered and
the rescued, there were nearly two thousand women
and children and men assembled on the wharf.
Some had come across from Rockaway 10 catch
the train the city, but were there 10 enjoy
the music OF the band, and sat at tables drinking
beer. All Were Jolly. As the tug came close 70
the pier the band struck up more lively air than
IL had been playing and the merry crowd wei
coined the newcomers with shout. man sprang
ashore from the tug boat.
'For Gods sake stop the music" he cried.
''There are dead aboard"
The music ceased and the crowd grew still.
Five women, crying and wiring their hands were
be seen the bodies or the dead woman, the two
little girls stretched side by side, their white
dresses cling1ng TO them like shrouds. The women
and children on the wharf cried In sympathy, and
where music and laughter had been moment be-
thundered In and most OF the crowd scrambled on
IL.
Capt. David Hendrickson and his son were in
charge OF the Mystery, and both are believed 10 be
lost. The wife or John O'Br1en. the boat-owner,
who owns number OF boats and keeps saloon
at Canarsie, was on board with her three children
and all were drowned. The remember OF the
party were mainly Germans. The excitement and
confusion was so great that even the ideniifca-
tions OF the recovered bodies were contradictory
and uncertain.
The conflicting stories OF the survivors, and the
chance that there may be some rescued people at
Barren Island, make IL impossible TO give exactly
the number lost. The boat load is generally be-
leved TO have numbered thirty-seven, and the
most hopeful account OF the rescues likes their
number at ten. This would make twenty-seven
drowned
Among the party on the Mystery was q blind ac-
cordeon player. Last night, while the grapplers
and others were at work 10 recover the bodies his
accordion was found floating In the water.
co.
Did His Wife Poison Inimi
ALLEGED REVENGE OF A WOMAN FOR THE WHIPPING
OF HER CHILD
A Chrfsfeld Nd, special TO the Philadelphia
Press, July 10, says: Jonathan Farlow died yes
terday under circumstances that gave strong sus-
picion OF poisoning at the hands or his wife, Far
low is about fifty years OF age and was a widower
when he married Emily Pope about six weeks ago.
She is about eighteen and is the mother or child
or nfteen months. Friday evening Farlow
severely whipped the child. She begged him TO
desist, but he said he would whip IL as long as
they lived together and IL she did not like IL she
might take the child and 60. He afterward
threatened TO kick her out OF the house. Yester-
day morning she called on DIR. +. l. Benney and
asked him how much strychnine IL would take 10
kill man and II cents worth would do. shortly
aIterward she was In drug store and asked for
Strychnine. The druggist, not knowing the
woman according 10 his custom In such cases,
gave her borax, which was labeled Poison"
In another store she insisted on strychnine and
obtained IL. She says she mixed up the strych-
nine and some quinine In separate glasses at the
same time and poured the strychnine, as she
thought, into rat hole I'm the stable and that her
husband took the contents or the other glass.
shortly after Farlow took IL he was thrown Into
convulsions The first thing he said was go
away, you have poisoned me-" he was dead In
less than an hour and hail. Justice Horsey had
a talk with Mrs. Farlow, In which he told her that
She had been suspected. She started 10 run
through the adjacent woods toward the river.
number OF boys and men started In pursuit, out
she could not be overtaken until after she had run
reached the water, In which IL is believed she in-
tended TO commit suicide. She was committed 10
Jail to await q hearing. At the funeral or Fariow
htsafternoon his wife was present In charge OF
down.